Events: February 12, 2013
Selected by J. Hoberman
January 19, 2013 – April 7, 2013
Werner Schroeter: Magnificent Obsessions
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Schroeter's most visionary movies—the willfully crude, aggressively campy low-budget opera-travesties he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s—were a significant influence on both Fassbinder and Syberberg.
More InformationCategory: Film
Selected by Ingrid D. Rowland
Ongoing
Teatro Valle Occupato
Teatro Valle, Rome
When the City of Rome decided to sell off the eighteenth-century horseshoe theatre a group of outraged (and talented) citizens took it over as squatters. Thanks to them, the Teatro Valle Occupato presents a full program of theatre and music.
More InformationCategory: Exhibition, Festival and Dance
Selected by Francine Prose
October 24, 2012 – April 14, 2013
The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
Museuem of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston
How tepid and colorless the text message and the tweet seem compared to these mini-masterpieces of snail mail.
Category: Exhibition
Selected by Ingrid D. Rowland
February 2, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Pietro Bembo and the Invention of the Renaissance
Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padova
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) romanced Lucrezia Borgia, climbed Mount Etna and invented the semicolon. Titian painted his portrait. An exhibition in Padua focuses on the man and his collection, both extraordinary.
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Reviewed in the NYR
February 12, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Piero della Francesca in America
The Frick Collection, New York
In the March 21 issue, Walter Kaiser writes, “What, in the end, is most idiosyncratic about the quattrocentro artist Piero della Francesca is the essential nature of his mind, which was molded both by artistic and by mathematical perceptions.”
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Reviewed in the NYR
January 24, 2013 – May 26, 2013
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
The American Folk Art Museum, New York
In the May 9 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, “This exhibition of the mid-nineteenth-century portraitist William Matthew Prior refutes the idea that antebellum American artists usually showed African-Americans in a trivializing manner.”
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Selected by Francine Prose
February 8, 2013 – August 4, 2013
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
The bottle cap has never looked more transcendently beautiful than it does in the art of El Anatsui.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
January 23, 2013 – September 15, 2013
Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers
Museum of the City of New York, New York
A micro room of our own: the Museum of the City of New York has a new exhibit called "Making Room" that presents a welcome antidote to the swollen McMansion: minute spaces beautifully designed.
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